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Mar. 26th, 2016 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theladyrebeccaI think I sewed for the entire day yesterday, but I feel like I don't have much to show for it I got the bodice pleats sewn down, cut off the excess fabric, serged around the front of the bodice, and attached it to the back pieces. Then I moved onto the sleeves. I got both lower sleeves sewn together, and hemmed one. But I didn't like how the hem looked, so I haven't done the other yet because I want to see if it behaves better on my other machine. So I started on the upper sleeves. I cut out my sleeve pieces (four layers - turquoise taffeta, white net, white sequin mesh, and turquoise organza) basted the layers together, and then serged all the edges so that I could treat them as one. I sewed the seams, and ran all my gathering stitches. Pulling up the gathering stitches through all those layers (especially the sequins) really really sucks (which is why I've only done one sleeve so far). On one sleeve, I also bound the top and ran the elastic through the channel. I was just going to use elastic at the top, but I think I might add it at the bottom, too, since I can't gather the sleeve tighly enough to fit her lower bicep measurement. I also tried to pattern an inner fitted sleeve, so that I can stuff the inside of the outer sleeve with net if I need to. I'm not positive if I'll need to or not, and I hope I don't, since I'm not sure how to fit the fitted section into the elastic top of the outer sleeve (the outer sleeve doesn't attach to any sort of fitted band - it's just the turned over elastic channel at the top).
So anyway, I got a bit exhausted with the sleeves by early evening, so I decided to move on to my etsy stuff. I washed almost all of the fabrics for the samples yesterday, and decided to make the skirt first, since it will hopefully be easiest. I can't remember if I mentioned, but besides the princess play dresses, I also found some cute licensed fabric that I'm going to make into a couple adult size skirts to sell. I'm still trying to decide which kids dresses to make first - I want to make one kid size and one toddler size to begin with. I think I'm going to do Snow White and Ariel, and then maybe Elsa.
I don't know if I'm going to get anything done today, though. I woke up early to go to the WA caucus, then ran some errands, and came home and did a bunch of yard work. So now I'm exhausted. Plus I have people coming over for an adults-only egg hunt tomorrow, so I should probably tidy up the house a little bit.
So anyway, I got a bit exhausted with the sleeves by early evening, so I decided to move on to my etsy stuff. I washed almost all of the fabrics for the samples yesterday, and decided to make the skirt first, since it will hopefully be easiest. I can't remember if I mentioned, but besides the princess play dresses, I also found some cute licensed fabric that I'm going to make into a couple adult size skirts to sell. I'm still trying to decide which kids dresses to make first - I want to make one kid size and one toddler size to begin with. I think I'm going to do Snow White and Ariel, and then maybe Elsa.
I don't know if I'm going to get anything done today, though. I woke up early to go to the WA caucus, then ran some errands, and came home and did a bunch of yard work. So now I'm exhausted. Plus I have people coming over for an adults-only egg hunt tomorrow, so I should probably tidy up the house a little bit.